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This is the gospel according to Mary Meeker, a living legend amongst venture capitalists. Instead of just blindly clicking through her 200+ page 2016.. 
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Who runs the Internet? Is it Google, the global search leader that trades fantastic free services for borderline frightening insights into user behavior? Is it Apple, whose iPhones and iPads are reportedly used to connect people to the Internet more than any other mobile devices on the planet by a massive margin? Is it the Illuminati? According to a new feature from the team that taught us how to disappear online, there are actually six organizations that secretly run the Internet and you might not have considered any of them. A new piece from the team at WhoIsHostingThis.com digs intoanother area of the Internet that most users don’t think about. According to the firm, there are six organizations that have a tremendous amount of power over the Internet and Google, often considered the king of all things Web, is not among them....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Cue the conspiracy theme song. An interesting look inside the Internet.
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Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation. Six structures are regularly observed: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and inward and outward hub and spoke structures. These are created as individuals choose whom to reply to or mention in their Twitter messages and the structures tell a story about the nature of the conversation....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
How people connect to form groups on Twitter for a variety of purposes. Fascinating research.
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[The Washington Post] If you’ve ever suspected the Internet is taking over your offline life, an economist has some disheartening news for you: It is.... Scott Wallsten, a senior researcher at the Tech Policy Institute, parsed through the American Time Use Survey and analyzed the Internet’s “crowding-out” effect — what things we do less of so we can spend more time online. His findings, released this month in a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, were pretty dramatic. For every minute people spend on “online leisure time” — i.e., not working or checking e-mail — they also spend significantly less time on other common activities....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
you mean I'm losing sleep because of internet surfing? Pass the remote. Zzzzzzzz.
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Tech Crunch has done us a huge favor in producing a 49-slide interpretation of Mary Meeker's 211-slide mashup. Save yourself two hours.